Rokeya and Woolf: souls that have lived

There are some amazing similarities between the Bengali writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and her English counterpart Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) that will make you wonder whether every great soul that has ever lived experiences the same dimension of reality in different shapes. Both wrote i...

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Main Author:	Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
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Language:	English
Published:	Transcom Group 2018
Subjects:	HQ1101 Women. Feminism PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PK Indo-Iranian PN0080 Criticism PR English literature
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spelling	iium-683912018-12-18T04:51:02Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/68391/ Rokeya and Woolf: souls that have lived Hasan, Md. Mahmudul HQ1101 Women. Feminism PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PK Indo-Iranian PN0080 Criticism PR English literature There are some amazing similarities between the Bengali writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and her English counterpart Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) that will make you wonder whether every great soul that has ever lived experiences the same dimension of reality in different shapes. Both wrote in the early twentieth century and are authors of fiction and non-fiction works. Both were born into two rich, illustrious families and had learned fathers. Rokeya's father Zahiruddin Muhammad Abu Ali Hyder Saber was a well-versed individual in a number of languages and was given the title of a zamindar by the colonial government. Woolf's father Leslie Stephen was a prominent Victorian editor and biographer and was knighted in 1901 by the British monarch. Transcom Group 2018-12-08 Article NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/68391/1/Rokeya%20and%20Woolf_souls%20that%20have%20lived.pdf Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2018) Rokeya and Woolf: souls that have lived. The Daily Star. p. 11. https://www.thedailystar.net/literature/news/rokeya-and-woolf-souls-have-lived-1670593
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description	There are some amazing similarities between the Bengali writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) and her English counterpart Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) that will make you wonder whether every great soul that has ever lived experiences the same dimension of reality in different shapes. Both wrote in the early twentieth century and are authors of fiction and non-fiction works. Both were born into two rich, illustrious families and had learned fathers. Rokeya's father Zahiruddin Muhammad Abu Ali Hyder Saber was a well-versed individual in a number of languages and was given the title of a zamindar by the colonial government. Woolf's father Leslie Stephen was a prominent Victorian editor and biographer and was knighted in 1901 by the British monarch.
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